In Shën Naum of Nënshat (Shkodër), Dom Ndoc Suma was born, a martyr of the Catholic Church. He attended the Albanian Papal Seminary until the second year of theology. He completed his last two years at the Canisianum College of the Jesuits in Innsbruck, Austria. He was ordained a priest in Shkodër on September 21, 1911. He served as a parish priest in Koman, Kçirë, Nënshat, Naraç, Laç in Vau i Dejës, Pistull, and Plezhë. He was arrested in Laç in Vau i Dejës and imprisoned in Shkodër on December 8, 1946. He was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment and forced labor on December 16, 1946. After falling seriously ill, he was released on November 25, 1954. He passed away in Pistull of Shkodër in 1958. (In the photo: Dom Ndoc Suma)
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